November 16th, 2010
Fix the Web is a new initiative launched this week by Citizens Online – a charity dedicated to the promotion of universal internet access – and the Nominet Trust(the people responsible for anything ending in .uk). Aimed at improving web access for people with disabilities, its aims are laudable and, frankly, difficult to disagree with. According [...]
October 30th, 2010
I think it’s time I came clean about my secret life. For too long I’ve pretended to be a digital marketing guy from Bradford, with a background in journalism and PR. And the lie had to come crashing down eventually. You see, I’m actually the boss of Mercedes Formula One team. For those of you [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Ok, first things first – I will make a *real* effort to write about nothing even remotely Apple-related next week. Not sure if I’ll manage it… but I’ll try my best. Anyway… after initially announcing it in January and it being dubbed the “iPad killer” by Uncle Fester, sorry Steve Ballmer, the boss at Microsoft, [...]
October 6th, 2010
Do you remember when Google was a search engine? Seems a long time ago doesn’t it. Google Docs. Google Calendar. Gmail. Android. YouTube. Google Chrome. Blogger. Google Earth. Google Maps. Google Streetview. Google… well, you get the idea. It’s all part of the Internet Goliath’s plan to command pretty much everything we do on the [...]
September 14th, 2010
19.08.10: Updated with link (see end): The new video for Arcade Fire‘s “The Wilderness Downtown” has to be seen to be truly understood… but I’ll attempt to explain it. The video is an online multimedia extravaganza, with every version tailored to be personal to the viewer. When you visit the web site, it asks for [...]
September 12th, 2010
Now SEO gets really interesting. With the launch of Google Instant (take a quick look, if you don’t know what I’m talking about) SEO changes, yet again. For too long, “dubious” “SEO experts” have pretended that SEO was a dark art, not to be understood by mere mortals. Well, to some degree that was true [...]
September 8th, 2010
And you tell the kids today this – and they won’t believe you. I’ll attribute when I can remember where the heck I got it!
August 12th, 2010
Just had a call from my girlfriend. Nothing unusual in that, we speak most days. The unusual part was that she called the landline, when normally she’d call my mobile. She’d left her mobile at home, so had to go hunting for my work number to give me a call. Of all the people in [...]
May 5th, 2010
So, if you’re an Internet savvy whizzkid – like my good self – you probably make use of Google Docs, especially when working collaboratively on a project. For those not in the know: Google Docs is essentially a web-based version of Microsoft Office, with all your documents – word processor documents, spreadsheets etc. – living [...]
September 2nd, 2008
So, today’s big news was that – after years of rumours – Google has launched it’s own web browser, Google Chrome (Windows only at the moment – grrr!). At first glance there are some extremely interesting ideas in Chrome; it’s a ground-up reworking of how a web browser should be, created to work well with [...]